Web Development Tools and Services You Can't Live Without In this article we'll look at some web development tools and technologies that you can't live without. They will either make your life easier as a developer, or they will add functionality to your website, simplify the development process or make you more productive!
How to Make Your Web Images Load Quickly: Introduction To Web Images Web graphics can increase your pageviews and generate a lot of interest. The down side is these graphics can also be the source of many issues. In this series, you will learn how bitmaps work, when to use JPEG, GIF, and PNG formats and how to create web page graphics that load quickly.
Featured Goodies
Top 10 HTMLGoodies Tutorials for Web Developers Web developers often have a hard time wading through the myriad of tutorials and articles available on the topic of website development. We'll do the wading for you in this article, and will show you 10 tutorials on HTML, JavaScript, CSS, mobile development and more!
jQuery Basics for Web Developers: Mouse Events As with JavaScript, jQuery supports a lot of events. Events are methods that can be attached to HTML elements. If you want to add a click event, change event, or double-click event, it's really easy with jQuery. In this article, we will explore many of these events and the ways to apply them to your objects.
Beyond HTML
Beginning Web Developer Course: Advanced Email Configuration In the previous article in this series, we explored the basics of configuring email for your domain using cPanel and learning how to set up spam blocking and an autoresponder. Before we leave the subject of mail, though, there are a few more useful things to learn that will allow mastery of mail on our shared server.
Cloud Computing for Web Developers Many developers have expressed interest in cloud computing as it relates to web development, but haven't really understood just what cloud computing has to offer. This article will discuss some of the cloud services that are available to web developers today.
HTML and Graphics Tutorials
How To Add a YouTube Video to Your Web Site Embedding a video from YouTube in your website is quite simple these days. In this tutorial we'll show you how to do it, and how to use the more advanced embedding features that YouTube now provides to web developers.
Web Developer's Guide: How to Speed Up Your Website There was a time way back in this author's career when making web sites as fast as possible was almost as high a priority as making them look good. Google recently announced that site speed will affect page ranking, but what can cause speed problems and how do you fix them? That is what we hope to answer in this article.
Primers
How Can I Detect the iPhone & iPad's User Agent? So you've decided to create a mobile website for iPhone and iPad users, rather than creating a web applications. Where do you start? This tutorial will show you how to detect the popular mobile devices using JavaScript, PHP and your site's .htaccess file!
Using Safari for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Website Testing Last week we showed you how to detect the iPhone & iPad's user agent. This week we'll show you how to use Apple's Safari web browser for testing your iDevice-ready website by simulating an HTTP request from Safari on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
iPad and iPhone Development: Using CSS Layouts We've learned how to detect the iPhone and iPad user agent, how to test and set orientation and how to test our iDevice-ready websites using Safari. This week we're going to show you how to start putting all of the pieces together, and use CSS layouts for the disply of our iPad-ready website.
Web Development Daily News
Apple's iPad Has Come a Long Way
Many folks know the story of the iPod, but not many are aware of the development process that Apple's iPad went through. Back up ten years, when Bill Gates unvieled Microsoft's Tablet PC...and then it happened, a vision was born.
Internet Explorer Bounce Back May Be a Thud Instead
Microsoft has been touting Internet Explorer's market share turnaround for the past two months, but it may turn out to be only a temporary reprieve for the company's aging browser.
Using YSlow and Page Speed To Speed Up Your Website
Once you've hit a plateau using various techniques that are used to speed up your website, it becomes more difficult to see any progress. By using Using YSlow and Page Speed you can get back on track, and shave a few important seconds off your site's loading time.
iPhone and Flash Together Yet Again Through Skyfire Browser App
The Flash vs. HTML 5 debate rolls on, but one company, Skyfire, is hoping to bring Flash to the iPhone with or without Apple. The Skyfire browser, already available for the Android and Windows Phone 7, will soon become available through the App Store.
Palm Releases webOS 2.0, SDK to Developers
Palm today announced that the beta version of its webOS 2.0 software development kit (SDK) is now available for developers. New features include an expanded universal search that developers can use, along with new HTML 5 features and enhancements.
